Gloucester
Recreating the Past
Published on 10. September 2021
96 pages
978-0-7509-9825-3 (ISBN)
Description
If you stand today in the middle of Gloucester you're standing above two thousand years of accumulated history. Beneath your feet is a Roman fortress, a proud colonial city, a Saxon royal centre, a prosperous medieval market town, a Roundhead bastion and an expanding Victorian industrial hub.
Over the last 50 years, local artist and historian Philip Moss has been recreating those Gloucesters of the past in a series of beautiful and well researched reconstruction drawings and paintings. In Gloucester: Recreating the Past, the complete body of Philip's work has been collected together for the first time, and is presented alongside original photographs and drawings from archaeological excavations to tell the story of Gloucester from its Roman beginnings to the present day.
Over the last 50 years, local artist and historian Philip Moss has been recreating those Gloucesters of the past in a series of beautiful and well researched reconstruction drawings and paintings. In Gloucester: Recreating the Past, the complete body of Philip's work has been collected together for the first time, and is presented alongside original photographs and drawings from archaeological excavations to tell the story of Gloucester from its Roman beginnings to the present day.
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Mention in World Archaeology magazine 'The work of its co-authors is exemplary - lucid, elegant and informative.'More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
Illustrations
80 Illustrations, color
File size
83,25 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7509-9825-3 (9780750998253)
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Book
09/2021
The History Press Ltd
€36.50
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Persons
Philip Moss is a local historian, illustrator and the author of THP's Historic Gloucester. As a founder member of the Gloucester and District Archaeological Research Group, he has excavated on many archaeological sites locally and also illustrated plans, finds and reconstructions. Andrew Armstrong is Gloucester's City Archaeologist. His job mainly involves providing planning advice for the City Council but he also undertakes public outreach work, e.g. regularly speaking at the Gloucester History Festival.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Beginnings
- The New Fortress
- Colonia
- Holes into the Past
- Return to the Bon Marché
- The Forum
- Stonework in Southgate Street
- Westgate Colonnade
- The Walls
- The Gates
- The Waterfront
- Outside the Walls
- Amphitheatre
- Roman Glevum to Saxon Gloucester
- Invasion
- The Old Castle
- The New Castle
- The East Gate and Kings Walk Bastion
- The Medieval Bridges
- Medieval Gloucester
- Normal Life
- Tanners' Hall
- Later Use of the City Gates
- Hidden Gems?
- The Siege of Gloucester, 1643
- Gloucester, 1750
- Creating the Future?
